CVE-2024-5497 Memory corruption in Chrome

What is CVE-2024-5497?

CVE-2024-5497 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 30 May 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Out of bounds memory access in Browser UI in Google Chrome prior to 125.0.6422.141 allowed a remote attacker who convinced a user to engage in specific UI gestures to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. (Chromium security severity: High)

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5497?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Google Chrome.

How do I fix CVE-2024-5497?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2024-5497 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5497 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2024-4947 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-4671 Google Chromium Visuals Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2024-5497, GHSA-8mwf-wgf7-7qpx.